Regarding icedtea-web builds

[Jiri Vanek]

On 08/08/2018 04:43 PM, brahmam wrote:
> Hi Jiri Vanek
> 
> Thanks a lot for the details..
> 
> Can we consider this icedtea-web an alternate to webstart?
> 

Yes. It is intention of ITW to be javaws replacement.
> 1. Can you please guide me with the help documents/best practices in order to use icedtea-web.
Please see https://icedtea.classpath.org/wiki/IcedTea-Web ; if something will be missing, I will be 
happy to enhance it (or you can :) ) so future requests will have the reame ready:)

> 2. Can you please guide me with the guidelines  to use icedtea-web in order to migrate from webstart.

ITW, although being javaws implementation, is nearly fully specification compliant. *nearly*, 
unluckily:(  Compared to oracle javaws reference implementation, there are many corner cases when 
those two implementations are not aligned.  Some parts of oracle javaws reference impementation are 
simply not applicable to completely different design of ITW.  Others are simply missing. On 
contrary, ITW have many very specific features.

> 3. I understand icedtea-web is an open source software, how is the support works incase of any 
> issues while using icedtea-web.

Direct support is bad. When bug arrives, I or some of my colleagues in OpenJDK usually fixes that. 
But sometimes not.  Really depnds. Our cycles in ITW are limited.
The most common support you can get is via distribution support. Eg Red Hat Enterprise linux or SUSE 
enterprise are contributors to ITW and OpenJDK itself. If you have theirs support, we usually fix 
the ITW for you on demand.
Luckily, you can clone the source, fix on your own (debugging tutorial is on that wiki). I will be 
happy to review your patch.


HTH.
J.

> 
> Thank you in advance!
> 
> Regards,
> Sreeram
> 
> On Wed, 8 Aug 2018, 19:56 Jiri Vanek, <jvanek at redhat.com <mailto:jvanek at redhat.com>> wrote:
> 
>     On 08/08/2018 04:15 PM, brahmam wrote:
>      > Hi to All!
>      >
>      > May I know is it the good channel to discuss about icedtea-web?
>      >
>      > If yes, would like to know the link/location where icedtea-web builds can be downloaded?
>      >
>      > Regards,
>      > Sreeram
> 
>     This is correct list.
>     Currently ITW do not offer binary releases for linux. But with plugin dead and rewritten lunchers,
>     this is likely to change with ITW 8.
> 
>     ITW ave only src releases now and windows binary. The last one is:
>     http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2017-December/039064.html
> 
>     J.
> 
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>     Red Hat Czech
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Red Hat Czech
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